Woman slain in murder-suicide sought protection order from shooter only five days earlier

Jeffrey Calvert and Christin Stock are shown during a trip to Tofino, British Columbia, in a photo from Calvert's online photo album, "Us -- A Love Story," that Stock objected to in her application for a court protection order.

PORT ANGELES — A 35-year-old mother of two who was killed by her ex-boyfriend in a murder-suicide wrote only last week that she was afraid of a confrontation with him.

Christin Stock's application for a protective order against Jeffrey Calvert — the 41-year-old Bellingham financial officer who burst into her home and killed her and himself late Sunday afternoon — listed Calvert's Internet photo album he called "Us — A Love Story."

In that online album are 375 photos and short videos that show a onetime happy couple who enjoyed the outdoors and visited many Northwest and Canadian locations, at times with Stock's two young daughters from her former marriage.

Stock handwrote the petition for an order for protection from harassment in Clallam County District Court on Feb. 19 and filed it the next day.

Four days later, Calvert kicked in the back door of Stock's Oak Street house while carrying two guns, handcuffs, a knife, pepper spray, duct tape, a stun gun and ammunition.

As police hurried to the home in response to two 9-1-1 calls, Calvert fatally shot Stock and then shot himself dead.

In her request for a protective order, Stock detailed her ex-boyfriend's behavior as he tried to re-establish their relationship after she moved out of their Bellingham house in October.

She wrote about his excessive gifts, letters and packages — which she ignored.

"I am afraid that as he continues not to get a response from me that he will show up to confront me in person," she wrote five days before she was killed.

"The day I left [in Bellingham], he physically restrained me three times, and stood over me trying to intimidate me as I packed my belongings.

"Jeff needs to understand that I want him to leave me alone."

Port Angeles police said Monday that Calvert had a 1995 stalking conviction involving a different woman in King County that was vacated earlier this month.

Calvert had worked for seven years as a finance manager for the Bellingham Community Food Co-op, according to human resources manager Deborah Craig.

Craig said Calvert was a full-time employee at the time of his death.

Hundreds of photos
Stock said she objected to the public Web site on which Calvert had posted the photo images and home movies of Stock, him and Stock's two daughters, ages 11 and 9.

The images show the smiling couple posing at many locations as well as video depicting the girls playing soccer, some games in Port Angeles.

The images date back to 2005, according to the Web site.

"This Web site portrays us [to a third party] as a couple," she wrote.

"It has been up since I left him."

Stock and Calvert had lived together in Bellingham from July to October last year, a time Stock described as "very troubling months in which I felt emotionally abused."

"When I left," she wrote, "I told Jeff that I never wanted to see or talk to him again."

The application for a protective order would have resulted in a hearing early next month.

She did not ask for an emergency protective order, which would have taken effect immediately.

'Tired of harassment'
Port Angeles Police Chief Terry Gallagher said that although she sought protection from harassment, her friends and family had not indicated during interviews with detectives that she feared for her safety.

"As near as we can tell from talking to her friends, she was not in fear of immediate harm of this man, but she was tired of the harassment, the flowers and all of the cards," Gallagher said.

Packages and cards sent to her included 30 long-stem roses for this month's Valentine's Day — four months after she had broken up with him.

The day before — Feb. 13 — a package arrived containing a variety of homemade movies.

In one Calvert was naked, and the others were of "Jeff talking to me in a disturbing manner," Stock wrote.

Cards were sent throughout the preceding week.

The cards were similar, she wrote, saying they were along the lines of: "I love you. We were meant to be together. I can't live without you."